The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go the second mile, to turn the other cheek, but Jesus says if we are His disciples we shall always do these things. There will be no spirit of--"Oh, well, I cannot do any more, I have been so misrepresented and misunderstood". . . Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is--Never look for justice, but never cease to live it.

There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.

Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

Trust completely in God, and when He brings you to a new opportunity of adventure, offering it to you, see that you take it.

The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould

Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.

The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.